"I did not expect to find this much. I didn't expect to find layers two inches thick," said University of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye.

According to The Daily Beast, "the newly discovered oil has not conclusively been linked to the Deepwater Horizion oil spill yet, but several factors indicate that it is not oil from the natural seepage that occurs on the floor of the Gulf." - Brynn Mannino, Assistant Editor

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